The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

And the tree was happy

Shel Silverstein

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Noam Chomsky

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

Pete McCloskey

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerus

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Peace Pilgrim

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

Bonnie Raitt

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Andy Warhol

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Baltasar Gracian

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Patricia Ireland

If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit.

Kristen Crockett

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Audrey Hepburn